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1. Abend and Getter families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.120.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-circa 1963
…, and both immigrated separately to France around 1925. They later married and lived together in Paris, France. Germany occupied France in June 1940, and…
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 … Galicia (Zolochiv, Ukraine), who were all in Paris, France during the Holocaust. Languages: Yiddish, English, Polish Administrative Information Access…
2. Abendstern, Fleischmann, and Meyerhoff families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.494.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
…. Cyprien and Gurs. In May 1941 he was transferred to Les Milles. After Elly and Peter learned about his arrest and internment in France, they moved to…
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 … Otto's internment in several camps in southern France, Elly and Peter's survival in France during the war in Graulhet and Font-Romeu, and Adolf…
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3. Adam and Roma Zandel papers
2005.545.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.545.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1985
bulk: 1920-1946
… designer in a factory that produced artillery fuses. Later, he convinced the owner to open another facility in France, and in 1939 Adam immigrated to France…
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 … correspondence related to Adolf Adam Zandel and Roma Kleczewska, as they attempted to immigrate to the United States. Adam worked as an engineer in France before…
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4. Adler family papers
2016.458.1 Book Enclosure 8 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.458.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880 September-2003
… medicine in Hungary, he began to look for ways to emigrate. He found a position in Paris, France with Dr. Francois Moutier, and moved there in May 1939…
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 … found a position in Paris, France with Dr. Francois Moutier, and moved there in May 1939. Through assistance with his family, he was able to secure an…
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5. Ajke family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2001.88 | RG Number: RG-10.226
Date:
1910-1999
… in Camp Beaune-la-Rolande in France, soldiers in the French army, and a memoir written by Marek Ajke entitled, "Memorias De La Rebelion En El Ghetto De…
6. American Friends Service Committee Refugee Assistance Case Files
Document | Accession Number: 2002.296
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1963
bulk: 1938-1958
… Quaker relief operations in Europe were in southern France, in the unoccupied area controlled by the collaborationist Vichy government. Since 1939, a…
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 … in southern France, in the unoccupied area controlled by the collaborationist Vichy government. Since 1939, a multinational group of Quakers had…
7. André Waksman collection
2017.476.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.476.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2009
bulk: 2007-2009
…André Waksman was born on 12 June 1943 in Elne France to Jacob (b. 1910 in Kalisz, Poland) and Suzanne Waksman (née Doktorcyck, b. 1911 in Pabianice…
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 … including their flight France to Italy and as refugees with their son André at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York from 1944-1946. Included are identification…
8. The Archives of the World ORT Union Head Office
Document | Accession Number: 2019.190.1 | RG Number: RG-68.219
Date:
inclusive: 1880-1970
bulk: 1920-1970
… was based in France, where it established vocational courses in internment camps for Jewish refugees who had been imprisoned as enemy aliens. Germany…
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 … Facts 1930-1936", Paris, 1938 ~1930-1936 65 p + XI p (2 copies) 4944523 ORT-27 ORT collection ORT statutes: drafts and printed versions in France, Germany…
9. Archiv Josef Fišera
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0069 | RG Number: RG-43.028M
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1998
Alternate Title:
Josef Fišera Archive
… association with Jan Masaryk. Escaping to France, Fišera enrolled in the Sorbonne where he met some of the professors who would help him in his resistance…
10. Arditti family photographs
2014.390.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.390.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1955
… sister Rebecca ("Betty") was born circa 1915. After World War I and the founding of the modern Turkish state, the Arditti family moved to France and sought…
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 … album pages. The images depict members of the Arditti family, a Turkish Jewish family from Smyrna, who emigrated from Turkey to France in 1920. Identified…
11. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
… for a Cuban landing certificate for Julius. He sailed on the St. Louis, was returned to Europe, found temporary refuge in France, was arrested as an…
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 … Hilde behind. When the St. Louis was returned to Europe, Julius found temporary refuge in France until he was arrested as an enemy alien at the outbreak…
12. Bramson family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2012.495.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1960
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--France.…
13. Böhm and Hanau families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.336.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2012
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…), Lina Hanau (later Lina Jung, b. 1893), Frieda Hanau (1897-1991), Albert Hanau, and Selma Hanau. Bertha lived in Mulhouse, France from 1937-1948 and later…
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 …), Frieda Hanau (1897-1991), Albert Hanau, and Selma Hanau. Bertha lived in Mulhouse, France from 1937-1948 and later lived in Saarbrücken, Germany. Her…
14. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… interned in Gurs internment camp in France. Mina was able to correspond with her and send her an affadavit of suppot for a US visa. Klara managed to escape…
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 … terms Gurs (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Jews--Germany. Holocaust victims--Germany. Concentration camp inmates--France--Gurs…
15. Chambré and Elsoffer families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1994
bulk: 1920-1950
… Cohen, 1883-1942). After the rise of the Nazis in Germany, the Elsoffers persuaded their daughters to leave Germany, and both ended up in France. Ruth…
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 … repeatedly in Belgium, France, and Spain, prior to his release in 1943 and immigration first to Palestine, and then the United States. Included is extensive…
16. Charles Paul Kogel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.79.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1985
… France in 1942 to perform forced labor. His wife and daughter were deported in September 1942 or 1943 vie Mechelen and perished. In January 1944 Kogel was…
17. Charles Roman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.91.2
Date:
inclusive: 1894-circa 1953
bulk: 1940-1949
… 1938, and in November 1938 Leopold left Austria for Belgium. Charles and his mother fled to France in December 1938. They were arrested in Strasbourg…
18. Charles Weingarten papers
2002.420.26 Box 10 Folder 6 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2002.420.26
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2009
…Charles Albert Weingarten was born on January 13, 1941, in Nice, France, to Margarethe Weingarten, an actress, and Rudolf Gelb. Margarethe was born…
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 … false identity in Nice, France, during World War II, their postwar lives, and Weingarten’s unsuccessful efforts to obtain compensation for Holocaust-era…
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19. Daisy Herrmann Kummer family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.333.1
Date:
inclusive: 1893-1963
bulk: 1930-1948
… France in spring 1939, where she found refuge at the children’s home at the Chateau de la Guette, a mansion owned by Edouard and Germaine de Rothschild…
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 …, Daisy’s years as a refugee in France, and the family’s immigration to the United States. Documents include birth, marriage, residence, baptism…
20. Danielle and David Snegg papers
2014.230.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.230.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1990
bulk: circa 1920-1949
…Danielle Snegg (1926-1990) was born Fernande Halerie in Paris, France, to Avram (Adolf) Halerie (1902-1945) and Marguerita (Ita) Halerie (nee…
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 … (Concentration camp) Drancy (Concentration camp). Jews--France--Paris. Concentration camp inmates--Correspondence. Holocaust survivors--France--Paris. Paris…